Piazza's Ideal Cast- Page 3

[FrancisGumm]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 12:56am

pasquale is HOT! i wish i could have heard him sing this!

Posted: 12/30/05 at 1:19am

steven is AMAZING! i wish he would have done the OBC too. he has always really wanted to be on TV and movies, so i am happy for him.
he is gonna be famous..just watch! oh, and he isn't gay! someone asked that once but i didn't know how to post yet. not that there is anything wrong with being gay!!( "Seinfeld" ) hahahah

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 1:23am

if he were gay...that'd be okay, i mean cuz hey! i'd love him anyways, because you see if it were me i would feel free to say that he is gay but he's not gay

[IssaMe]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 7:37am

Having worked with Bernadette through the years, all I can say is that there isn't a nicer and more talented woman in the business...she is "the top" in every way - and everyone who knows her and who has worked with her adores her.

However, she has had vocal inconsistencies for years (going back into the 1970s).

When she can sing in top form, she's fantastic...but her voice is very fragile and she frequently loses it. I have seen her go on like a trouper when she's had zero voice (particularly in a club setting)...and pull through for her fellow performers and for the audience.

But you simply can't do that with the role of Margaret --- you can't have someone in the role when you don't know if that person can sing it with consistency and reliability from performance to performance. This is a work of operatic scope which requires incredible vocal stamina.

There is much that Bernadette can and should do --- however, a long run in "Piazza" is not, IMHO, one of those things at this point!

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 8:14am

Minor threadjack to say that must have been awesome working with Bernadette.

[IssaMe]

Posted: 12/30/05 at 9:08am

"Awesome"???

"AWESOME" ???

Even in capital letters, much too weak a word.

The experience(s) of a lifetime is more like it.

And, yes...awesome.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 2:25am

OBC for me...

[soulman83]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 3:24am

I have to say that i think the OBC would have been perfect if Burnham had the role over Morrison. ive seen matthew three time and he is good but you could tell he didnt truly know what he had and i am not convinced that he appreciated the role. i mean to work with such an amazing composer like Guettel is just amazing and every time i saw him in the role it was like "eh whatever" it annoyed me. he was still amazing but you cant beat david. H had me on the edge of my seat the entire show and you could tell her lived and breathed that role. i told him that. i mean he was fabrizio. when he sung his songs it was almost like at any moment he could rip off is skin just to express how much the love he had for clara was killing him. i mean he was so beautiful in the role. completely breathtaking. david is the best ive ever seen in the role. The thing is he was very much on par with the rest of the cast and made you remember who he was. i will never forget him in the role. not to mention he has the best vocal training out of all the fabrizio's. Listening to matthews poppy sound in the show made me sick sometimes. on the other hand matthew is amazing and i would still take him anyday.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 8:28am

I haven't seen David
But this I know
To where Matthew took it
No one else could go

[bwaybabe85]

Posted: 1/1/06 at 4:33pm

I would LOVE to see Peter Lockyer tackle the role of Fabrizio.

[soulman83]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:24am

ive seen matthew and david
and this i know
david is the best fabrizio

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:14am

If this is a stupid question I apologize, but can Bernadette even get up into the range needed for Margaret? I didn't think she was a soprano at all, so I couldn't imagine her hitting those notes...

[flaemmchen]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 11:26am

Mmmmm...Peter Lockyer could do it, but I think he's a bit old.

As Piazza has only had two casts, I can't really say which would be ideal, because I really love the elements that the various performers I've seen have brought to the roles. I can say, however, that I can't picture the show without Vicki Clark as Margaret--she's such a force of nature up there and is clearly the major rock in the show, and it's hard for me to imagine anyone else who can perform the role like her, though there obviously are actors out there who can.

Bah, I need a fix. Badly.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 2:57pm

only because you push it soulman
(otherwise I would prefer not as comparison is odious)

The onstage presence
Of both I have seen
David's fine butter
Matthew is cream

Posted: 1/2/06 at 3:05pm

I think Kelli was the weakest link of the OBC but I haven't seen any other Clara's to post a better choice.

[Phantom2]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 5:41pm

Personally, I fell in love with Kelli's performance.

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 6:35pm

Awww...

The quality of operatic sound that Kelli hit at certain places like "queen," "the beauty is," "museo" was so exquisite on the ear. And she expresses such vulnerability onstage. Not to mention her physical beauty, pretty hair and sweet Irish eyes. That Tony ought have been hers.

I look forward to seeing her in Pajama Game! Bet it'll be a completely different persona!

Posted: 1/2/06 at 6:48pm

It wasnt her singing that bothered me. She is good at that. And I do give her that it was a very very difficult role, but I dont think she nailed it the way that everyone else in that show seemed so perfect. I dont mean to say that she was bad. From my first review of the show:

"Kelli O'Hara has a tough tough job! Portraying a 26 yr old with the mental & emotional capacity of a 12 year old who seems to have grown... I dont know that theres a perfect way to get all that across, and in the end her mother comments that she seems very much the same age as Fabrizio, who is 20. She definitely displays naivety and innocence but it just seems as if no matter what age she plays it, itll make *someone* go hmmm? She changed things a bit between the times I saw the show so shes still experimenting it seems. I hope she finds the perfect answer."

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 7:37pm

Isn't Fabrizio 26 and Clara 20?

Posted: 1/2/06 at 7:57pm

no.

[bwaybabe85]

Posted: 1/2/06 at 9:02pm

flaemmchen, Peter may be getting there age-wise, but he certainly doesn't look it!

[IssaMe]

Posted: 1/3/06 at 7:24am

Speaking of "Piazza's Ideal Cast" - interesting that the original Seattle & Chicago "Clara" and "Fabrizio" - Keenan-Bolger & Pasquale - will be appearing with current sometimes-Fabrizio, Burnham, - all together in "Forward" -------------
at Makor Jan. 16. Right before Burnham takes over "Fabrizio" for a week.
Updated On: 1/3/06 at 07:24 AM